Urs Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked: > I have a problem on WinXP. In perl I want to read the tail of a file. > The file is written with another windows program. If I am > using a sleep(5) before of the read command I get the new > tail content. It seems the program has longer to write it or > it is buffered. > Is there a command in perl to flush a file?
Yes and no. You can set autoflush on the filehandle in question, but that will only work for your own write operations. You can't force another process to flush pits pending output by doing this, though. HTH, Thomas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
